Atmospheric carbonation of concrete with EOS4
Hi all,
We are trying to run a case simulating atmospheric carbonation of concrete with Toughreact V3/EOS4.
Running the case without reactivity to check the transport of a tracer works fine (see profiles and time series below) :
But as soon as we had reactivity (diffusion of CO2 gas reacting with portlandite), the tracer starts oscillating...?
not to mention the behavior of minerals, for instance portlandite :
Anybody using EOS4 and having this type of behavior?
Olivier and Pascal
6 replies
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I haven't seen this yet personally, but have you checked to see how limiting the time-step size affects your results?
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We are already using a very small timestep (20 s) but have checked smaller ones (2s) which did not solve the problem. Below this value the computing time would be redhibitory for a calculation over 100 years...
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Right, that makes sense. Did you notice any differences between the 20s and 2s cases?
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I meant prohibitive... (redhibitory doesn't seem to be english ^^)